Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

Lead Software Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Lead Software Engineer salary in Glasgow is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 29 119
Rank change year-on-year -9 +90 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Engineer 56 533 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.54% 14.91% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.46% 15.20% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile - £63,000 -
25th Percentile £77,500 £70,125 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 662 3,506 1,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.10% 98.10% 87.78%
Number of salaries quoted 290 977 651
10th Percentile £29,975 £29,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Lead Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Lead Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Engineer in Glasgow

Lead Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Engineer in Glasgow.

Salary trend for Lead Software Engineer in Glasgow

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, Lead Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Lead Software Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 53 (94.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 53 (94.64%) Finance
2 53 (94.64%) Law
3 45 (80.36%) Agile
3 45 (80.36%) Operational Stability
4 37 (66.07%) SDLC
5 36 (64.29%) Cloud Native
5 36 (64.29%) Banking
6 32 (57.14%) Java
6 32 (57.14%) CI/CD
7 28 (50.00%) Community of Practice
7 28 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 27 (48.21%) Information Architecture
8 27 (48.21%) Architectural Design
9 25 (44.64%) Machine Learning
10 24 (42.86%) Kafka
11 22 (39.29%) Python
11 22 (39.29%) AWS
12 20 (35.71%) Spring
13 17 (30.36%) Marketing
13 17 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (28.57%) SQL
15 15 (26.79%) RESTful
16 13 (23.21%) Kubernetes
16 13 (23.21%) Mathematics
16 13 (23.21%) Computer Science
16 13 (23.21%) Decision-Making
17 12 (21.43%) Big Data
18 11 (19.64%) Azure

Lead Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (14.29%) Apache
1 8 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 22 (39.29%) AWS
2 11 (19.64%) Azure
3 8 (14.29%) GCP
4 7 (12.50%) GitHub
5 5 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.36%) Azure AI
7 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.36%) ChatGPT
7 3 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) Big Data
2 8 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (14.29%) KDB
2 8 (14.29%) Kdb+
2 8 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 8 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (7.14%) Apache Hudi
3 4 (7.14%) Apache Iceberg
3 4 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (7.14%) InterSystems Cache
3 4 (7.14%) Parquet
3 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.36%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 4 (7.14%) JUnit
General
1 53 (94.64%) Finance
1 53 (94.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 53 (94.64%) Law
2 36 (64.29%) Banking
3 17 (30.36%) Marketing
4 7 (12.50%) Private Banking
5 4 (7.14%) Front Office
5 4 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 4 (7.14%) Social Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (42.86%) Kafka
2 20 (35.71%) Spring
3 15 (26.79%) RESTful
4 11 (19.64%) React
5 8 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 8 (14.29%) Web Services
6 5 (8.93%) PySpark
7 4 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (7.14%) J2EE
7 4 (7.14%) OAuth
7 4 (7.14%) OAuth2
7 4 (7.14%) OpenID
7 4 (7.14%) REST
7 4 (7.14%) SAML
8 3 (5.36%) .NET
8 3 (5.36%) .NET Core
8 3 (5.36%) AngularJS
8 3 (5.36%) Blazor
9 1 (1.79%) Pandas
9 1 (1.79%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 36 (64.29%) Cloud Native
2 9 (16.07%) Algorithms
3 7 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.14%) Credit Risk
4 4 (7.14%) Derivative
4 4 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (7.14%) Fixed Income
4 4 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 45 (80.36%) Agile
2 45 (80.36%) Operational Stability
3 37 (66.07%) SDLC
4 32 (57.14%) CI/CD
5 28 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 28 (50.00%) Community of Practice
6 27 (48.21%) Architectural Design
6 27 (48.21%) Information Architecture
7 25 (44.64%) Machine Learning
8 17 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (23.21%) Computer Science
9 13 (23.21%) Decision-Making
9 13 (23.21%) Mathematics
10 11 (19.64%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (16.07%) Tech Ops
11 9 (16.07%) Visualisation
12 8 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
12 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (14.29%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (57.14%) Java
2 22 (39.29%) Python
3 16 (28.57%) SQL
4 8 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 7 (12.50%) C#
6 4 (7.14%) Go
6 4 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (23.21%) Kubernetes
2 9 (16.07%) Terraform
3 4 (7.14%) Grafana
3 4 (7.14%) Netcool
3 4 (7.14%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 4 (7.14%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) Oracle
2 4 (7.14%) Databricks
2 4 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 4 (7.14%) Facebook
2 4 (7.14%) Google
2 4 (7.14%) IBM
2 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 4 (7.14%) Splunk
3 3 (5.36%) Murex